Evie Coussé

List of John Benjamins publications for which Evie Coussé plays a role.

Titles

Constructional Approaches to Nordic Languages

Edited by Evie Coussé, Steffen Höder, Benjamin Lyngfelt and Julia Prentice

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 37] 2023. v, 278 pp.
Subjects Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Grammaticalization meets Construction Grammar

Edited by Evie Coussé, Peter Andersson and Joel Olofsson

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 21] 2018. vi, 315 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Category Change from a Constructional Perspective

Edited by Kristel Van Goethem, Muriel Norde, Evie Coussé and Gudrun Vanderbauwhede

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 20] 2018. vii, 314 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Usage-Based Approaches to Language Change

Edited by Evie Coussé and Ferdinand von Mengden

Subjects Functional linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

Coussé, Evie, Steffen Höder, Benjamin Lyngfelt and Julia Prentice 2023 Chapter 1. Introduction: Nordic languages and construction grammarConstructional Approaches to Nordic Languages, Coussé, Evie, Steffen Höder, Benjamin Lyngfelt and Julia Prentice (eds.), pp. 1–23 | Chapter
Coussé, Evie 2018 Chapter 4. Grammaticalization, host-class expansion and category changeCategory Change from a Constructional Perspective, Van Goethem, Kristel, Muriel Norde, Evie Coussé and Gudrun Vanderbauwhede (eds.), pp. 93–117 | Chapter
It is well-known that grammaticalization involves category change. The development of a lexical element into a grammatical marker more specifically entails a category shift from an open lexical class (e.g. full verbs) to a closed grammatical class (e.g. auxiliary verbs). This article claims that… read more
Coussé, Evie, Peter Andersson and Joel Olofsson 2018 Grammaticalization meets Construction Grammar: Opportunities, challenges and potential incompatibilitiesGrammaticalization meets Construction Grammar, Coussé, Evie, Peter Andersson and Joel Olofsson (eds.), pp. 3–19 | Chapter
Van Goethem, Kristel, Muriel Norde, Evie Coussé and Gudrun Vanderbauwhede 2018 Chapter 1. Category change from a constructional perspective: IntroductionCategory Change from a Constructional Perspective, Van Goethem, Kristel, Muriel Norde, Evie Coussé and Gudrun Vanderbauwhede (eds.), pp. 3–12 | Chapter
This article investigates lexical expansion in the HAVE and BE perfect in Dutch. It is known from previous research that early perfects show more lexical restrictions than their modern counterparts. The aim of this article is to uncover how perfects change their collocational preferences over time. read more
Mengden, Ferdinand von and Evie Coussé 2014 Introduction. The role of change in usage-based conceptions of languageUsage-Based Approaches to Language Change, Coussé, Evie and Ferdinand von Mengden (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Article
Coussé, Evie and Johan van der Auwera 2012 Human impersonal pronouns in Swedish and Dutch: A contrastive study of man and menLanguages in Contrast 12:2, pp. 121–138 | Article
This paper presents a contrastive study of the human impersonal pronouns man in Swedish and men in Dutch. Both impersonal pronouns are etymologically derived from man ‘human being’ and they more or less have the same meaning. However, there are important differences in the usage of these pronouns.… read more
This paper aims to examine the existence of silence in language acquisition for learners in a multilingual environment using a survey conducted among the Dutch population in Sweden. The objective of the study was to investigate the extent to which children learning Dutch from their parents in a… read more
Kloots, Hanne, Evie Coussé and Steven Gillis 2006 Vowel labelling in a pluricentric language: Flemish and Dutch labellers at workLinguistics in the Netherlands 2006, Weijer, Jeroen van de and Bettelou Los (eds.), pp. 126–136 | Article